I may be putting 2 + 2 together but someone may be hanging up their boots....

When I read the tweet from James Deighton my first thoughts were JP

same

THen I wondered (hoped) that it just turns out to be Senior

It must be JP
If it is I hope kylie stays,we can't. Afford to lose both at same time.If it is JP it could be The sleaves comments about rotation/recruitment.JP probably didn't fancy being flogged to exhaustion for another season

If it is him then it might explain why his performances upped significantly in the latter part of the season, if it was his last season.

Would be surprised if it is Peacock retiring as he only recently signed a new contract. Good it be a new player, the big signing that everybody has been talking about.

The tweet mentioned reirement not signing it didnt mention Leeds so who knows!

Yeah was trying to think of "West Yorkshire legends", there aren't that many that would fall into legendary status. Especially as he also tweeted to say it wasn't Senior.

Has it got anything to do with Hepatitis story???

In many ways I would be happy for him to retire. It would weaken our team significantly, and we would suffer, but I think a player as great as JP deserves to go out at the top, and with a bang

If it is JP retiring then we must have some significant signings in the pipeline in our pack

It's Stuart Dickens

Given the hep story surfaced ages before the season's end I very much doubt it (unless there's been another which I've missed). Nor do I think Peacock will be retiring just yet.

When that story was published it stated that whichever player it was hadn't played or trained for his club since the diagnosis. This immediately rules out JP. There is a different Leeds player though who it COULD be, it would explain alot of the subsequent none appearances. When the story broke I instantly thought of said player, however, i could be putting 2 & 2 together and making 5.

That could make it Webby but as he has signed for the Cats that rules him out

The identity of the player retiring has already been revealed in this very thread.

Knows what he's on about that Mr D.

Kylie?

Thanks, but there's nothing too hard about reading things on Twitter

So let me get this right, Stuart Dickens announces his retirement on Twitter?

...am I missing something here but why all the excitement?

Danny Ward retired. True story.

Because James Deighton announced yesterday on twitter that "a West Yorkshire rugby league legend" would be retiring today. I think the term legend has probably been stretched a tad in this case.

Oh - right... although saying Dickens is a Rugby League legend (or ledgend as I saw on epic fail tattoos) is, as you say, a stretch of anyone's imagination.

I guess if it is Stuart Dickens he is classed as a legend in Fev.
Been a great servant to their team for many years and now a Radio Leeds pundit.

Rugby League doesn't begin and end with what is achieved at the top level though - and I'd say it is appropriate to use the term given the fact that he has played over 400 games - at prop - since breaking into the Fev team as a teenager (he's now 32)...

If he had not decided to retire (I believe to take up a coaching post at Wakefield), then next season he would have more than likely have broken the all-time appearance record for Fev - which has stood since 1934.